KDEConnect/Build MacOS

[Note] Building on macOS is still an experimental feature, it's not stable and could not be launched as other applications on macOS. Please do not use it in your production environment !

Prerequisite

Install Xcode from App Store
Install Xcode command line tools with xcode-select --install
Install Python 3 from Python Homepage, Homebrew or MacPorts. Validate your python install with following command:which python3
As of September 30, 2021, to fix 'curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired', depending on MacOS version:

MacOS <=10.11: trust the Let’s Encrypt ISRG Root X1 certificate
MacOS 10.13-10.15.5: update the system's OpenSSL trusted roots bundle, delete the expired DST Root CA X3 certificate from the system's OpenSSL trusted roots bundle, use an updated trusted root bundle, or use an updated version of curl from eg. brew or MacPorts.

Setting up Craft environment

Once all prerequisites are satisfied, install Craft

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KDE/craft/master/setup/CraftBootstrap.py -o setup.py && python3 setup.py --prefix ~/CraftRoot

With this command, Craft will be installed in ~/CraftRoot. You can change the directory after --prefix to install Craft to another directory.

After a long installation, the final output should be this:

Craft               : /Users/<username>/CraftRoot
Version             : master
ABI                 : macos-64-clang
Download directory  : /Users/<username>/CraftRoot/download

Setup complete

Please run the following command to get started:
  source /Users/<username>/CraftRoot/craft/craftenv.sh

Then, you can execute source /Users/<username>/CraftRoot/craft/craftenv.sh to enter the Craft environment.

Fetching source code and building

Make sure you are in the Craft environment. There could be a CRAFT: prefix in front of your prompt, like this:

Run craft kde/applications/kdeconnect-kde to build KDE Connect on macOS.

If all is well, the last output could be

*** Craft all succeeded: kde/applications/kdeconnect-kde after 1 minute 51 seconds ***

Then you'll get your own build of KDE Connect on macOS in /Users/<username>/CraftRoot/build/kde/applications/kdeconnect-kde/image-RelWithDebInfo-master/. But you don't really need handle with it. Just continue...

Run craft --package kde/applications/kdeconnect-kde to pack KDE Connect to a single application package.

This will be a long process(tested on Mac Mini 2012 fusion driver, 3 minutes 25 seconds).

After that, you will get a DMG image file in /Users/<username>/CraftRoot/tmp/.

Launch on macOS

Double click to mount the DMG image, drag it into Applications folder. Then you can see it on your Dashboard.

Open and enjoy the connection between your Mac and your Android phone!

The build is passed on macOS 10.14.5 with Xcode 10.1. Feel easy to test it on other versions.